Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 15:46:16 +0200 From: Alexander Haderer <alexander.haderer@charite.de> To: Borgmaster <ribo6611@student.uu.se>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why has my swap pager gone nuts? Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.1.20030408154138.01a203a8@postamt1.charite.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.53.0304081521100.1772@trana.it.uu.se>
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At 15:30 08.04.2003 +0200, Borgmaster wrote:
>Hi,
>
>When I try this, X is disabled but some daemons are running, such as
>Samba, ntpd, linux emulation, etc. Top reports ~430Mb free. I have 512Mb
>RAM in the machine and 256Mb swap partition. I know that one is supposed
>to have twice swap as physical RAM, but is that really necessary on my
>single user workstation? 1.5G of total memory is twice the memory I have
>in some other servers...
Where does this 1.5G come from? I see 512MB RAM +256MB swap.
Nevertheless:
top can show you the processes running, ordered by memory usage:
top -o size
With this command you should be able to find your memory eater(s).
with best regards,
Alexander
--
Alexander Haderer Charite Berlin - Germany
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